Because I have a dog like this too...

Monday, July 12, 2010

Because I have a dog like this too...

And he's sweet and pretty, but just not very smart.

This cracked me up.

19 comments:

Heather said...: Every time I look at that post, I die laughing. I have two dogs, both Italian Greyhounds, and one of them not only acts like that, but she kind of looks like Allie's picture, too (dark and skinny). I die.; July 12, 2010 at 1:55 PM
Tara McClendon said...: Love the pic. My dog is a window licker. He can keep us occupied for hours with his slober show.; July 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM
the cautionary tale said...: we've had boxers since forever. one had a tongue so massive it didn't fit in her mouth. I love this pic!! Boxer love!!; July 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Laurie Lamb said...: Slevin is beautiful! What a cute photo. Did he just get peanut butter?; July 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Lynsey Newton said...: OMG that post was hysterical, I have tears running down my face! Thank you so much for sharing that with us :); July 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Karen Amanda Hooper said...: Love it. I have a big ol' American bulldog and he cracks me up at least 5 times a day. :); July 12, 2010 at 5:27 PM
TerryLynnJohnson said...: that totally cracked me up. thanks for the great dog post link!!; July 12, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Simon Hay Soul Healer said...: Thank you. I haven't laughed with tears for so long. I'm still laughing. I love dogs.; July 12, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Shelley Watters said...: I loooove boxers. They are so cute. And thanks for the laugh. I felt like I was watching myself try to train my dogs!; July 13, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Kristin Miller said...: I luuuuurve this puppy!!!! *restrains self from full-on puppy/baby talk*

And Hyperbole and a Half is my go-to blog for learning the realities of life. XD; July 13, 2010 at 2:15 AM
Shelli (srjohannes) said...: made me miss mine :(; July 13, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Marjorie said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM
Marjorie said...: There was a horrible incident with a dog yesterday. I live in Chelsea (Manhattan) and I was walking to Bed Bath and Beyond. As I approached 6th Avenue, I saw this young girl (well, to me the 20s are young). She was shaking her dog's head with one hand and she had her other hand down his throat. Her own head was almost upside down over him she was so scared and involved in what she was doing. I ran over and I saw her pulling garbage in pieces out of his mouth, and she was screaming, "Open your mouth, spit it out."

All of a sudden, she pulled this raunchy long half eaten sort of sharp chicken bone out of his mouth. He had picked it up from the sidewalk with his tongue. She told me he had swallowed a piece and was choking so I said, "Let's go over to the the vet on 21st Street." She said he was OK.

OK. So if you have a dog with a long tongue, when you walk him please keep your eye ahead to see what might be in the path that could be a problem. She was pretty shaken up and just went home.; July 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Victoria Dixon said...: Oh, this makes me laugh. We have two dogs and one is LOUD. We call him the snarfer because he sneezes, he wheezes, he yaks and snorts and grunts and groans and there's no other way to say the noise: he SNARFS. You can hear him coming blocks away. He's my third Aussie Shephard and the only one who has ever been noisy at all. Go figure.; July 13, 2010 at 9:01 PM
hannah said...: I don't even have to click the link.

<3; July 14, 2010 at 2:48 AM
Julie said...: Suzie,

Intelligence is subjective.; July 14, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Lee Nichols said...: Oh, looks so much like our old boxer who died 10 years ago and I still think about practically every day.; July 15, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Emma Michaels said...: So cute! I saw that you are a part of the Debut Author Challenge! That is so amazing that you are supporting debut authors and I only recently found out that I am going to be one!!! I wanted to ask if you wouldn’t mind heading over to my blog and giving me your opinion. As a blogger turned author I would really appreciate it and the publisher is still giving out ARCs so you might have a chance at a free copy! Thank you and I hope you will stop by and check out The Thirteenth Chime!

Sincerely,
Emma Michaels
http://EmmaMichaels.Blogspot.com

P.S.- My release date if Friday the 13th (August this year) isn't that crazy?; July 18, 2010 at 12:47 AM
L.J. Boldyrev said...: Omg! That is too funny!; July 21, 2010 at 9:37 AM

Five Random Things About Suzie

1. I drink so much orange soda, it's probably running through my veins. I've been known to go through a twelve pack of diet sunkist in a day.

2. I'm legitimately nocturnal (or a vampire). I will be so exhausted at two pm that I'm falling asleep standing up - it has happened before, at Six Flags no less - but as soon as the sun goes down I'm wide awake.

3. I have a gorgeous unused $6000 Reem Acra wedding dress hanging in my closet, and it showed up on my doorstep the same day my (now ex) fiance broke up with me. And thank God for that. I wouldn't have wanted to waste that dress on him.

4. Social anxiety plagues me daily. I write a script and practice in front of the mirror when I have to make a phone call, but most people who interact with me have no idea how nervous I am (or perhaps they lie) because I've worked so hard to try to overcome it.

5. I'm actually worried that I will never love my children (when I do have them in the far off future) as much as I love my dogs. I just like animals better than people - they're sweet and innocent and soft and furry - is that so wrong?

quotes

金不一定閃
流浪者不都迷路

"I dreamed you bewitched me into bed

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I fancied you'd return the way you said
But I grow old and I forget your name
I think I made you up inside my head" ~Silvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." ~ Robert Frost

"Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds." ~ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-...So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, THE GREAT GATSBY

"For deadly secrets strike when understood
and lucky stars all exit on the run:
never try to knock on rotten wood,
never try to know more than you should." ~ Sylvia Plath, "Admonitions"

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become." ~ Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

William Wilberforce: "No one of our age has ever taken power."
William Pitt Jr: "Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~ Mark Twain

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace.” ~ Charles Dickens, A MUTUAL FRIEND

"I think the idea of life after death is a bad idea. It distracts you from appreciating the uniqueness of the here and now, the moment you are living." ~ Joseph Campbell

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear...Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end." ~ Alan Paton, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

"To laugh often and much.. to endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better... To know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover or friend, I have changed in their eyes...[Some see it as] a mission, as if ...they can pull me back from the wreckage of that day. Of course, their best efforts are largely useless. No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved." ~ Alice Sebold, LUCKY

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." ~Tupac, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Confessions

Monday, July 12, 2010